TV

[shipperx]

Lost
Wheeee! Sawyer/Kate sex... and it was kind of hot and sweet (which is always nice).


Heroes
Hiro remains all kinds of awesome. I loved his grin as he helped rescue D.L. and random victim.

However, I thought Matt's partner was a dimwit when she decided to enter NotSylar's home without backup.

And Claire was quite adorable as she begged her brother not to tell their parents about her powers because she didn't want them to regret adopting her.



Friday Night Lights

How much do I love Matt? And Tim? And Jason? It's just all KINDS of woobie love for all three.

Loved Matt's (Jeez! Three new shows this season with main characters whose name are "Matt". It's confusing!) Anyway, loved FNL's Matt being torn between his 'geek' friends and his new football hero status and his deciding that doing the right thing is more important that doing the best thing for the team.

Also I loved the way the Tim/Lyla/Jason field trip worked out. All sorts of love between Tim/Jason. And then the unbearable attraction between Tim/Lyla. Followed by the sweetness of Lyla/Jason. I always admire writers who can create triangles where you can truly sympathize with ALL THREE sides of the triangle. No one is wrong, here. No one is being anything but honest and caring. And it's such a doomed trainwreck because there's no way in hell that this won't cause complete meltdown of all of the relationships involved... and yet, with the way they've set it up, you feel for all three. That's savvy triangle writing.

As far as the Garrity/Voodoo thing... Boy, this all sounds too familiar. It's almost eerily like the incident that put Bama on probation several years ago and has just about ruined the program and why Bama fans really, really, REALLY hate Tennessee's head coach. A lot.


Studio 60

I thought that S60 was better this week. I actually managed to watch it and not want to bash the heads of more than a couple of the characters. That's actually an improvement for me. In fact, I even found one character I actually sort of like... Jack.

Speaking of Jack (but not really), I actually turned to SoapNet tonight and watched a bit of Days of Our Lives for more or less the first time since J&J were shipped off to great Britain. Anyway, I actually sort of like the new addition of the ubergeek Nick. And since I'm discussing soaps...

I'm excerpting part of a rant that I posted on TWOP, because it bears repeating...

Every now and then, when there's nothing on TV at 7 o'clock, I lazily watch the show on SoapNet and find myself astounded by the headwriter's incompetence. It's hilarious in its way. I sit watching, and it's perfectly, headache-inducingly obvious (as in the 100lb anvils that she drops on our heads)which way the writer intends for the audience to react to a scene or a plot. However, back on Earth, I (and apparently every other AMC poster on TWOP) sit with my mouth hanging open, wondering how in hell the headwriter can possibly write the bullshit that she's places in characters' mouths. It's stunning that this writer can set up a story intending to evoke one reaction from the audience but goes about it in such a backasswards way that it causes the audience to react in the exact opposite way.

Two days ago, while AMC aired round 10,000,000 of 'Babe Carey Chandler tearfull heroine' the writer made me hate, loathe, and despise Babe... again. No, it's not the first time I've hated the character, but... MMT (the headwriter) has a of passing the asshat around such that I loathe and despise different 'heroes' and 'heroines' at different times. For a long, long time I wanted Ryan to take his motorcycle and fly off another cliff. These days, on the hate-o-meter, he's registering as relatively benign. The other day, I even sort of liked his family-esque scene with Annie, Emma, and Spike (No. It's a different Spike). More recently my AMC hatred has been Dixie-centric. I won't go into the level of hateworthy self-righteous victimhood the character has been displaying except to say that it has been impressive (in the 'inspire the audience to throw things at the television' kind of way.) But yesterday, Babe went zooming back up to the top of the charts in the 'AMC most loathesome character' stakes.

Seriously, how can any writer think that Babe is the 'rootable' character? Or that Babe/Josh are a 'root for' couple? I was agog at Babe's explanation of her most recent infidelity -- "I was lonely and needed support and you weren't there for me." For what? Five minutes? Because he was SEARCHING FOR HIS BABY SISTER WHO HAD BEEN LOST AT SEA?!

Now, see, by earth logic, this would be seen as a totally lame excuse for (repeated) infidelity. But, you have to understand, in AMC land, Babe can do no wrong. Nothing is ever, ever, EVER her own fault. The writer actually intended that the audience BUY this lame-ass excuse. She was lonely (for five minutes) because he wasn't paying attention to her (for five minutes) so she was upset, and that totally makes it acceptable...

Wait a minute, wasn't this the excuse she cooked up the LAST time? The time she slept with her husband's brother?... while she and her husband were newlyweds! Her husband wanted her to meet his family, and she was all nervous and upset so she... went to a bar, picked up a total stranger and slept with him, and it ended up being her husband's brother!

But, again, I must stress, that this character can do no wrong in the eyes of the show. This indescretion was blamed on her husband, because he wanted to introduce his new wife to his father. Oh and he didn't love her enough (though he was totally faithful).

Oh I can't forget to mention (though the writers would clearly like the audience to forget) that while she was sleeping with her husband's brother, she was also a bigamist! That's right, she had another husband.

But the show blames that on her husbands and says that it's all because her heart is so big.

So, then Babe steals her best friends baby and raises it as her own for a year. You would think that this would make her best friend hate Babe. Well, if you think that, you would be wrong. Her best friend defended Babe! Said that Babe wasn't the bad guy in this... Babe's husband was (because when told that his one year old daughter wasn't his own... he lived in denial for two days not wanting to believe it. ) This crime is (apparently) much worse than Babe knowingly taking the stolen baby to it's own memorial service!, making the baby's true mother the child's godmother, and keeping the baby for a year.. How dare he disbelive Babe when she confessed (while lying about other things) saying that she wanted to do the right thing a year later. But wait, there's more. She lied and told her husband that their son was dead, then she absconded with the kid, ran off with her husband's brother, named the kid after his brother, and encouraged the kid to call its uncle Daddy. But, hey, it's her husband who's the evil one. How dare he... sue for custody of the child during the divorce. Why, he's taking a baby from it's mother! (Oh the hypocrisy in Babe's cries of injustice during that one). So she decides to seduce her husband so he would marry her again so that she could divorce him and win custody of the kid this time (it's a thing).

Anyway, all this rigamorole got tiresome and I mostly stopped watching, but tuning in again yesterday with her justifying her current infidelity by explaining that it's her husband's fault because he didn't pay attention to her because he was searching for his presumed-dead little sister! made me wonder what sort of drugs the headwriter must be taking that she can continue to dish out crap like this and yet wonder why the show's ratings are in the toilet. Good grief, a glimpse at any of the forums makes it clear that this crap doesn't fly. The most astounding thing is that while the writer clearly wants the audience to see Babe as a wronged heroine, the writer never pens a redemption plot for the character. They simply have other character's excuse her behavior (like the best friend whose baby she stole saying that "Babe is love". No, seriously, they wrote the best friend TESTIFYING to this in court during a custody battle. Or, most recently, having a character proclaim "Babe is a walking miracle." Again. Seriously. Someone wrote that dialog.)

How on earth do writers get so wrapped up in their Mary Sues that they cannot see that by having them get away with everything that they cause the audience to HATE the character? The most hilarious counter-effect to this was that when they had Babe's husband try to murder Babe, the audience was cheering him on. The only bad part was that the witch lived.

In real life news, my sister is still bugging me for house plans (every other day), and I draw EVERY FREAKING NIGHT AFTER WORK (for hours). I'm not done, okay. Not even close. It's difficult, and time consuming, and I'm devoting all my free time to this, so could she please, please, please back off?! Grumble. Grumble.

Comments

[txvoodoo.livejournal.com]

"Wheeee! Sawyer/Kate sex... and it was kind of hot and sweet (which is always nice). "

And we didn't have to wait 6 years for it, and 7 for an "I love you"!

[shipperx.livejournal.com]

And it didn't involve self-loathing, bitterness in the aftermath, or concussions!

[txvoodoo.livejournal.com]

And no one's turned into a crispy critter (yet)!

[dreamkeeper77.livejournal.com]

Hee. I just made a post like this! :) I love Hiro--he is so awesome. I really like Peter as well. (That's Milo's character right?) I was completely shocked that the older brother was married, though. :\

[shipperx.livejournal.com]

Didn't he admit to Nikki last week (or was it the week before) that he was married?

And, yeah, I think one of the successes of Heroes is that thus far most of the Heroes are likable.

[nmissi.livejournal.com]

Unfortunately, you and I are immune to the Glittery Hoo Has of daytime television (And their male equivalents) and so we just aren't able to properly appreciate the likes of St. BabeIsLove, St. Krystal, St. Dixie the madonna, Belle Black, Carly Corinthos, and the minimafioso over on General Mobspittle.

You know what I want to have happen on AMC? What'll bring me back to the show? Having JR hook up with someone worthy (Maybe even a marriage of convenience with Bianca) and raise lil A with them, while Babe and her hideous mother open up Pine Valley's first honest to god whorehouse. Just as long as they don't do it in the Chandler Mansion. I prefer them servicing their clientele in Mama's doublewide out near the outskirts of town.

[shipperx.livejournal.com]

Don't start me on the million reasons to hate Dixie.

I also find myself cringing a little at (all of the) boards screaming about how Babe is such a whore. I hate the term and think it sounds very misogynistic, except... Babe is such a whore!

Have you read today's spoilers about a serial killer coming to town? And, you know what, Babe almost certainly still won't die!

[bluemoon14.livejournal.com]

I'm loving the FNL triangle as well. Never thought I'd ever be pro-triangle, but in this case it's such a good storyline and as you said, all three characters are likeable. Plus, I can be magnanimous because I'm reasonably sure "my guy" will prevail. ;)

I do want Street to be happy but I can't see that happening with Lyla. She seems to be more of a comfortable habit for him at a time when he's vulnerable and clinging to anything familiar than someone who truly makes him happy.

Tim is already poised to be the Spike/Logan of the show, with the love him/hate him contingents already forming lines. I'm starting to see the the "he's a bastard and you just like him because he's hot" comments. Ah, the sweet familiarity of it all... ;)

[rahirah]

Yeesh. Isn't that a little over the line? There are limits to sisterly affection!

[shipperx.livejournal.com]

Sigh. It's just... my sister... and the way she is. It's not new or even situation specific. She's this way about everything which is important to her. She isn't meaning to be obnoxious. She's just incredibly myopic about certain things.

Although, JEEZ!, it's really damn difficult to listen to her gripe and moan about the hell of having to live in Inverness these days rather than English Village or Mountain Brook. After all, it's not like I haven't been living in Inverness for the last fourteen years. It's not like it's the damned ghetto. In fact, it's considered to be a highly desirable area of town. It's just not freaking prestigious enough for her (or something. Hell if I know what her problem is. Maybe it's all too darn new or something since most of English Village is 80 to 90 years old). I don't get it, but she seriously needs to back off before she inspires me to passive-aggressively delay designing the damned thing.